Many Americans spend Cinco de Mayo filling up on traditional Mexican food and enjoying beer or margaritas as a way to mark this major holiday of Mexico. But do Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo for the right reasons? To learn more, we talked with Rodrigo Cervantes of KJZZ’s Mexico City bureau.

Two thousand seventeen has seen box office numbers go up a little bit for the film business. The first blockbuster of the summer movie season was released this week, "Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume Two."

In late 1992, scientists were monitoring a construction site to a San Diego highway. They were collecting fossils of mammals that dated roughly to the Ice Age, when they came upon a site that had partial skeletal remains of an American Mastodon. With me to talk about this is Tom Demere, curator of Paleontology at the San Diego Natural History Museum.

Congress this week rolled back rules that had allowed states to set up retirement plans for their businesses and residents. With me to explain is Steve Jennings, associate state director of AARP Arizona.

After failing to bring the bill to a vote the first time, the Republican-led U.S. House has passed its replacement for the Affordable Care Act. While the bill has a long way to go before becoming law, it already has many in Arizona’s health care industry concerned. KJZZ’s Will Stone covers health policy and he joins me.

Mexico will elect a new president next year. Although President Trump has temporarily delayed withdrawing the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement, continued uncertainty over NAFTA and Trump's plans for a border wall are roiling Mexican politics.

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